5 Design Things To Do This Week

A+D always manages to put the fun in fundraiser and this year’s Celebrate party should be no different as it “celebrates” California’s beach communities with a beachy-themed runway show of custom surfboards, boogie boards and skateboards. Tunes spun by KCRW’s Raul Campos.

LA Conservancy is getting to the last of its Last Remaining Seats series, which involves watching a fantastic classic film in a splendid setting, specifically a screening of Citizen Kane at the Orpheum Theatere, an opulent theatre and twelve-story office building opened in 1926.

LA’s mobile food craze has its roots in taco trucks that served affordable snacks to workers across the region from cheerfully decorated, unpretentious trucks. Now LA Weekly marks that legacy with Tacolandia 2014 at El Pueblo de Los Angeles in downtown. The event is billed as an evening of food, drinks, entertainment and exclusive tequila tasting experience, curated by the World’s First Tacorazzo, Bill Esparza, featuring tacos from over forty of “LA and Mexico’s hottest vendors.”

When Muji opened in Hollywood last December, one fan of Japan’s famed emporium of understated, anonymously designed household goods, was so upset the company had chosen Hollywood over Santa Monica she actually wrote to the head of the company (hear her on this DnA). That customer will be among those delighted to know that Muji is opening this Saturday in Santa Monica; but not on the Promenade — its new store is almost at the Venice border, in Ocean Park.

In 2010, Rolston set up a portrait studio at the Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky and photographed dummies from the museum’s collection of nearly seven hundred ventriloquists dolls (dating from 1820 – 1980); each was shot in square format, low angle, monochromatic backdrop, and a single light source. Now some of Rolston’s large color portraits — 60″ square — are featured in a solo show at Dianne Rosenstein Fine Art.

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